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Man arrested for fatal Ventura County stabbing

Tim Hufner
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Unsplash

The suspect was already behind bars on unrelated charges when he was arrested.

There's been an arrest in the stabbing death of a Ventura County man.

Eugenio Lopez Ramirez was attacked on February 23 on Wilson Avenue in Oxnard. First responders started life-saving efforts, but the 26-year-old Oxnard man died a short time later at a hospital.

After a two-week-long investigation, detectives say they identified a suspect in the murder. Gonzales Garcia Rodriguez was arrested this week while already in custody at the Ventura County jail on an unrelated charge. The 24-year-old man is from Salinas.

Detectives are still trying to figure out what led to the killing.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.